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Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony?
techmuse writes "Viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC's Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and forth, apparently delaying the appearance of the United States in its home market until later in the broadcast. (In fact, the US team was shown on the infield before they were shown marching!) NBC did not acknowledge this in its broadcast. Is NBC altering the reality of the broadcast to boost ratings? Was this true only online, or also in the live broadcast?"
NBC hasn't done any honest reporting on anything in over 30 years. Why would anyone be surprised at this?
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
I've never liked the Olympics due to the overwhelming amount of political crap that goes around it. Suddenly, sites that host the olympics turn into a police state. Friendly merchants now gouge the hell out of everyone. The IOC act like they are some sort of immortal god when it comes to anything olympics related, seeming to trump state & local government authority. And that's not even the dirty politics that people play just to get the olympics hosted in their neck of the woods.
Having it hosted in China seems like an Orwellian match made in haven. At least they did one thing nice to combat the smog: they postponed burning of political prisoners(okay, that was a joke).
Its not like there was any good summer programming on NBC anyways.